"Books are a finer world within the world."

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"I will only start taking book reviews seriously from the day that books are able to review readers."

Mokokoma Mokhonoana, South African Philosopher

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"I think plays, like books, are endemic. They grow out of the soil of the writer and the place he's writing about. I think, you just can't move them about, you know."

Peter Shaffer, English Playwright

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"Evidently, I'd suffered an epiphany: the subconscious realization that when it comes to coolness, nothing the human race has ever invented is more cool than a book."

Tom Robbins, American Author

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"I love reading I know it's very important and I respect anyone that is patient enough to do it."

Stanley Victor Paskavich, American Politician

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"It's almost like these games are the modern day comic books, especially when you play Alone in the Dark. There's a real story that goes along with it and a movie seemed like the right kind of transition to make."

Christian Slater, American Actor

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"If you read my books, especially the Star Trek books and the Quest for Tomorrow books, you'll see in them the core theme of the basic humanistic questions that Star Trek asked."

William Shatner, Canadian Actor

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"I've had the odd good luck of starting slowly and building gradually, something few writers are allowed anymore. As a result I've seen each of my books called the breakthrough. And each was, in its way."

Jonathan Lethem, American Writer

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"Naturally, I have compensated in my adult years by owning very large numbers of books."

Martin Lewis Perl, American Physicist

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"I only keep books that I like very much. Otherwise I'd throw them out."

Norman MacCaig, Scottish Poet

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"I prefer the honest jargon of reality to the outright lies of books."

Jean Rostand, French Scientist

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"I will only start taking book reviews seriously from the day that books are able to review readers."

"I think plays, like books, are endemic. They grow out of the soil of the writer and the place he's writing about. I think, you just can't move them about, you know."

"Evidently, I'd suffered an epiphany: the subconscious realization that when it comes to coolness, nothing the human race has ever invented is more cool than a book."

"I love reading I know it's very important and I respect anyone that is patient enough to do it."

"It's almost like these games are the modern day comic books, especially when you play Alone in the Dark. There's a real story that goes along with it and a movie seemed like the right kind of transition to make."

"If you read my books, especially the Star Trek books and the Quest for Tomorrow books, you'll see in them the core theme of the basic humanistic questions that Star Trek asked."

"I've had the odd good luck of starting slowly and building gradually, something few writers are allowed anymore. As a result I've seen each of my books called the breakthrough. And each was, in its way."

"Naturally, I have compensated in my adult years by owning very large numbers of books."

"I only keep books that I like very much. Otherwise I'd throw them out."

"I prefer the honest jargon of reality to the outright lies of books."

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"We bury love; Forgetfulness grows over it like grass: That is a thing to weep for, not the dead."

"The dead keep their secrets, and in a while we shall be as wise as they - and as taciturn."

"I would rather be remembered by a song than by a victory."

"A man's real possession is his memory. In nothing else is he rich, in nothing else is he poor."

"If the egotist is weak, his egotism is worthless. If the egotist is strong, acute, full of distinctive character, his egotism is precious, and remains a possession of the race."

"The world is not so much in need of new thoughts as that when thought grows old and worn with usage it should, like current coin, be called in, and, from the mint of genius, reissued fresh and new."